school shooting drill

Apparently there's a high school in Chicago that did a "code red drill", which basically means they locked up all the students in classrooms and fired few blanks in the hallways.
It sounds like parents were notified in advance, though some said they weren't (maybe email spam folder).

I found the drill a little funny in a sad+nervous way.
Is it really this common now that we need to teach kids (high school, so not actually little kids but 13/14 and up) to get used to a school shooting.
Why isn't fire alarm practiced with smoke in the halls? or some fire-smell.
What happens when there are real shots? will students assume it's another drill? Probably not, maybe I'm grabbing for something to find what's wrong with this drill, I kind of don't like it.

I lived in white upper class snob suburbia when I was in school and we had "lock down" drills as well. Now we didn't have shots fired around us but it doesn't surprise me that a school in Chicago would be taking that kind of precaution.

I lived in white upper class snob suburbia when I was in school and we had "lock down" drills as well. Now we didn't have shots fired around us but it doesn't surprise me that a school in Chicago would be taking that kind of precaution.

Yeah a lock down drill, which can be used for a lot of different things, is a useful drill. Using blanks is a little much and doesnt really add any training benefit.

My high school did one of these once. We messed it up so horribly that we were forced by the school district to do it again. There were people running around with a sign on their chest that read "Bomb" knocking on doors, and one stupid idiot actually opened the door.

In a real situation, I think I would punch any asshole that goes to open the door of the classroom.

Originally Posted by Zantos

There are no 2 species that are 100% identical.

Originally Posted by Redditor

can you leftist twits just fucking admit that quantum mechanics has fuck all to do with thermodynamics, that shit is just a pose?

This is just depressing. What kind of 1st world country needs to have shooting drills. Just sad, glad i don't live in a country like that. Most we had to do here was a fire drill at the start of each year.

This is just depressing. What kind of 1st world country needs to have shooting drills. Just sad, glad i don't live in a country like that. Most we had to do here was a fire drill at the start of each year.

I live outside Chicago like 40 minutes from the City and all we've ever did was lockdown, fire, and tornado drills. Not like its commonplace.

This is just depressing. What kind of 1st world country needs to have shooting drills. Just sad, glad i don't live in a country like that. Most we had to do here was a fire drill at the start of each year.

These are nothing; back in the 50's we had nuclear bomb drills and old videos would show the flash of an explosion outside the window and the innocent schoolchildren hiding under desks completely unharmed!